Forum Post: Very timely this time of year
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 4, 2011, 12:49 a.m. EST by donewith1percent
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In the sence of a flash mob idea ,could banks have this acted, out hard and fast then get out? Then Government buildings too? It is from a Christmas carol. SCROOGE But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.
MARLEY Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
(Another moan from the phantoms)
MARLEY At this time of the rolling year. I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!
(Scrooge begins to quake exceedingly.)
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